Word: cats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After that initial overture fell through because the police lacked proof that the captives were still alive, the cat-and-mouse game grew even more elaborate. One anonymous letter leaked the names of three likely suspects, which led the police to keep watch over a carpenters' yard in a bleak Amsterdam industrial park. While pursuing that lead the authorities agreed to turn over the ransom. They stuffed an estimated $10 million into postal bags and placed the cash inside a van. Then a lone driver, communicating with the kidnapers over a walkie-talkie, followed their directions through...
...barns or even dwellings), homely anecdotes (the willow posts in a neighbor's fence that took root and grew into a row of trees), and vivid turns of phrase (the black spruce needles that grow all around the twig "like the hair on the tail of an angry cat"). Borland's concern for conservation is all the more effective for its understatement, as when he quietly notes that the scientist who measured the age of a California bristlecone pine at approximately 5,000 years cut it down in the process, thus destroying "the oldest living thing on earth...
...Cat's goat had actually played a key role throughout the see-saw battle that raised Harvard's record to 2-0. In addition to helping Harvard with its tiebreaker, be scored the middle tally of a three-goal second-period UVM surge that left the Crimson trailing 3-2 after 40 minutes...
...Weinberger how he could justify our aggression toward Nicaragua and Grenada, countries which are trying to alleviate their poverty, while at the same time supporting the government in El Salvador. Unfortunately, Weinberger's justification of our Central American policy based on five hundred thankful medical students was stifled by cat calls and chanting. The media did not focus on Weinberger's vacuous response but instead turned their camera on ketchup stained apparitions of death, and screaming Harvard students...
...caper seems to have been executed with simple cat-burglary techniques. Sometime after dark, the thieves climbed a repairmen's scaffold on the west side of the imposing, neoclassical building. After scaling a 20-ft. stone wall, they reached one of the windows to the old masters' gallery. It was not protected by bars, so the thieves merely cut a hole in the glass, opened the latch, and slipped inside. The burglar alarm, museum attendants later admitted, had been out of order for three weeks...